Phoenix Commotion: Affordable Housing from Recyled Materials
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffVisionary Dan Philips has been running his construction company Phoenix Commotion for 12 years with a dual purpose: creating beautifully unique affordable housing, and making use of recycled materials. A recent New York Times article ...
Solar Panels To Boost Property Prices
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffThe UK website BusinessGreen reports on a survey of 2,700 UK adults, which “found that half of respondents are interested in finding out whether their home is suitable for renewable energy systems, such as solar panels”: Meanwhile, ...
Verb Crisis: An Urban Transformation Boogazines
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffVerb Crisis examines architectural solutions to the extraordinary conditions of an increasingly dense and interdependent world. Editors Mario Ballesteros, Albert Ferré, Irene Hwang, Michael Kubo, Tomoko Sakamoto, Anna Tetas and Ramon Prat present innovative projects ...
Big Box Reuse: The Book
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffWhat happens when big box retail destinations die? As the economic downturn causes people to reduce their trips to stores and to shop less, more stores are forced to close and leave malls deserted. What's to ...
Big Box Reuse: The Book
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffWhat happens when big box retail destinations die? As the economic downturn causes people to reduce their trips to stores and to shop less, more stores are forced to close and leave malls deserted. What's to ...
Deadmalls.com: Tracking Closings and Developments
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffMall culture in the United States -- at least as we know it -- is coming to an end. As malls across the country start to fade into obsolescence, what is to become of these massive ...
Deadmalls.com: Tracking Closings and Developments
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffMall culture in the United States -- at least as we know it -- is coming to an end. As malls across the country start to fade into obsolescence, what is to become of these massive ...
Deadmalls.com: Tracking Closings and Developments
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffMall culture in the United States -- at least as we know it -- is coming to an end. As malls across the country start to fade into obsolescence, what is to become of these massive ...
ThetaNoon: Renewable Energy Calculator and Community
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffThetaNoon is an online community of thousands of people are choosing to harness this free source of renewable energy to power their appliances and lights, and heat their homes and water. They use the location information ...
ThetaNoon: Renewable Energy Calculator and Community
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffThetaNoon is an online community of thousands of people are choosing to harness this free source of renewable energy to power their appliances and lights, and heat their homes and water. They use the location information ...
ThetaNoon: Renewable Energy Calculator and Community
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffThetaNoon is an online community of thousands of people are choosing to harness this free source of renewable energy to power their appliances and lights, and heat their homes and water. They use the location information ...
Wales To Be “Self-Sustaining” In Energy
Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffBy Sophie Blakemore Government sets out roadmap for ‘One Planet’ nation by 2050. Wales has launched an ambitious sustainable development strategy to be “self-sustaining in renewable energy” by 2025, and to produce zero waste by 2050. The far-reaching ...
Better Buildings Soon? Energy And Climate Bill Would Set National Energy Codes
Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffBy Craig A. Severance The Waxman-Markey bill has a very strong set of building efficiency codes (see Section 201, page 214 of the bill -- a big PDF). Our guest blogger, Craig A. Severance, discusses what ...
Solar Plan Could Revolutionize India’s Energy Sector
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffA leaked early version of the Indian Government's national solar energy plan indicates that India may be thinking more ambitiously about a "clean energy" road map than was previously anticipated. The draft strategy, first published in The ...
The Future’s Made Of Straw
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffBy Anna Pigott North Kesteven District Council in Lincolnshire is to become the first local authority in the UK to use straw bales to construct social housing, when they begin a pilot project of two semi-detached properties ...
US Unveils $4bn Plan To Upgrade Public Housing As Part Of Green Jobs Project
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffBy Suzanne Goldenberg Renovation scheme will replace windows, insulation and light bulbs in ageing and neglected low-income housing stock. The Obama administration unveiled a $4bn (£2.5bn) plan to upgrade public housing for low-income Americans today, as part of ...
Stimulus Money To Kick Start Retrofits
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffBy Roger Valdez The Clean Energy Fund targets 500 energy efficient retrofits by 2010. We’ve been writing about some of the ways that federal stimulus funding has been misallocated to projects that would increase greenhouse gas emissions and ...
Canada’s Largest Green Roof
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffYou know an innovation has hit its stride when it becomes scalable. When we first started writing about green roofs, they were typically boutique projects -- and convincing city governments and developers to invest in their ...
Canada’s Largest Green Roof
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffYou know an innovation has hit its stride when it becomes scalable. When we first started writing about green roofs, they were typically boutique projects -- and convincing city governments and developers to invest in their ...
Bucky Done Gone: The Dome Home In Decay
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffI'm currently on a 10 year anniversary tour to talk about the role of design and architecture and its' impact on society. Tomorrow I speak at University of Miami and early this week at Rice University ...